Claussøn

However, not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the work where Peder Claussøn Friis first proposed this etymology, but the very name is ungrammatical in Norwegian: the correct form would have been Loaros (cf.

One of the very first names in Danish literature, Peder Claussøn Friis (1545—1614), was Norwegian born.

Peder Claussøn Friis (1545—1615) was also a humanist who both revived the Heimskringla by translating it into the language of the period and wrote the first natural history of Norway as well as an important topographic study of Norway.

The first complete translation was made around 1600 by Peder Claussøn Friis, and printed in 1633.